destroyed

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Pratt, a reality TV personality whose home was destroyed in the 2025 Palisades fire, rejected that assertion, saying he holds the mayor responsible for the devastating inferno.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Since then, they’ve destroyed opponents with more than 400 points in three games.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Ludmilla's own home was destroyed, she says, when the Kakhovka Dam further up the Dnipro river was blown up under Russian occupation in June 2023, causing catastrophic flooding.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

In 720 BC, Assyrian forces destroyed the city and carried off many of its valuables to their capital, Assur, located in modern-day Iraq.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

It was the killer wind that had destroyed Saint-Pierre.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis